Journey of a Filmmaker

The Journeys that changed me… A R Rahman was playing on my Nokia X2 and I was on my way to Mumbai on the a train to Panvel. It was about 2 weeks after the World Cup win by our nation. The spirit was very high all around the nation. Even I was high on spirits that I would finally be on-board. Being on-board is what we call being on a ship working. I was trained to be a Merchant Navy cadet and was awaiting an on-board training for nearly a year and the Mumbai journey offered me the much awaited ray of hope. One of my friends introduced me to an agent in Mumbai who used to receive a sum of money from aspiring Merchant Navy Cadets to get placed in companies. The money will be used to bribe the HR of the particular company and part of it will be taken by the agent as a charge for his service (Is it?). The agent whom we (I and my father) were about to meet promised to take the money only after my placement was assured for sure. Dad was convinced of it and so we decided to meet him per...

Dreams Diverge It’s quite natural that when two stuffs are offered free, we always want the best one. The simple thought today is, “When dreaming is just free of cost, why dream small?” It’s high time that we dreamt something big, after all! Our biggest problem is not only that we do not dream big, it is also that we mock everyone around us who dares to dream a little bigger than us. This post is the continuation of the previous one. I had decided to become a filmmaker when I completed 10th grade. Into the next grade, I was sort of confused and was indulging myself in too many things that diverged my attention in all directions making me truly lost in the world of an ordinary higher secondary student. You must have known that world. It was sort of a programmed routine which would start by me getting up at a really early time when people would generally be in their deep state of slumber.  I would start turning pages of my books without even min...

“Dare to Decide!”      I was fully sunk in the depression of having broken my mobile phone’s only charger. I really couldn’t get it out of my mind. Lately I guess I have become more materialistic. These are just the signs of my deeper psychological ailment. Anyway that not going to stop me from writing this.      To make a decision to get out of something that we have been doing for a while really requires a lot of mental strength and conviction. That to in a country like India, it’s near impossible to change our course. The basis of my argument today is “Change is the only thing that doesn't change”.      Let me take myself as an example, I always wanted to be an engineer when I was a child. My father was conducting tuitions for students and most of them became engineers and may be this has gone somehow into my mind and I really wanted to be an engineer always. And then, years passed and I was in my early teens when most of my father’s stud...

“I just can’t wait to shine!”               This is a line from my upcoming short film. It brings out the feeling of a person who desperately want to taste success. It’s not the fame or money that attracts these guys, it’s the self-fulfilling feeling of having done something that others can’t replicate. The burning desire to succeed is all it takes to be successful in life.               People who are talented and especially the ones who are confident of their talent surely will be restless of waiting to succeed. They want success so badly that they push their limits. They explore new avenues to showcase their skills. They don’t feel let down by failures instead they feel happy to have failed earlier. Because failure teaches you lessons that are tested throughout your path to success.               I really feel that there are three kinds of guys in this world. The first i...